PayPal

SWE Intern Interview Experience - Shanghai, Shanghai

April 11, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process consists of three rounds:

Two technical interviews
One manager interview

The first two rounds will involve a resume deep-dive and medium-level LeetCode questions. The third round is an SWE (Software Engineering) interview, which will ask closely about your experience with the development cycle.

Questions

How do you deploy a Python script on Docker?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the PayPal SWE Intern role in Shanghai, Shanghai.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

PayPal's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in Shanghai, Shanghai is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for PayPal's SWE Intern interview process in Shanghai, Shanghai.

PayPal Interview Questions

Zigzag Conversion

Medium

Convert a given string into a zigzag pattern with a specified number of rows. Then read the characters row by row to return the converted string.

Strings

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked ListsArraysDynamic Programming

Word Search

Medium

Determine if a given word can be constructed from letters in a 2D board, where letters can be used horizontally or vertically. Each letter can only be used once in the word.

ArraysStringsRecursionGraphs